Comparisons & Admitting You Need Help - Ep. 82

Milspouse Matters

Here’s the second installment of the study of my book, You Are Not Alone: Encouragement for the Heart of a Military Spouse, that we’ve been doing in the Christian Military Spouse Facebook group. As mentioned on the last episode, I decided to share the audio from my talks there on the podcast, and this is the week 2 study covering readings 5-7.

If you’d like to join in the ongoing book study and discussion, join us in the Christian Military Spouses Facebook group! (link below)

Don’t have the book? Get the new, updated 2022 edition here: You Are Not Alone: Encouragement for the Heart of a Military Spouse.

If you have the first edition from 2016, that will work fine too!

We're covering the themes of comparisons, discontentment with military life, and admitting when we need help. Sometimes military spouses need the reminder that we don’t get a medal for being the toughest and doing everything on our own! Another pitfall can be comparing our situation to our civilian friends and family and wishing we had it differently. We’re going to talk about not comparing, ways to cultivate contentment, and the importance of not struggling alone and finding that community we all need.

Common question: Do you have to be religious to read this book?

While this book is written from the perspective of faith, I think there is so much that pertains to any military spouse!

Click here for the complete show notes for this episode, including study questions and Scriptures mentioned.

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